Finland's population is ~5 million and ethnically/culturally homogeneous. It's relatively easy to swing things around at such small scale. Also, being homeless means being frozen dead most of the year over there. Still a very good thing, but their recipes can't be applied in a snap, not unless you're ready to pay as much tax as the Finns do (hint: it's huge amounts).

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

By criminalizing it, right?

Right?

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Homelessness is best understood as a crime perpetrated by society on the unhoused person.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's better to read the article before commenting on title alone.

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You got the joke, right?

Right?

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Sometimes it's better to walk right into Poe's Law before considering intent.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Need to save this, in case some "conservative" moron tries to tell me again, that providing housing to homeless solves nothing.

But the right-wing idiots in Finland are working on destroying this too

In the last year, national cuts to income, social security, and housing support have resulted in the first notable change to homelessness trends in over 11 years.

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Here's an older article from a city in Canada with similar findings, along with a few more savings figures and reasons why 'housing first' works.

I didn't find any updated figures with a quick search, but it looks like there was $1m/yr funding committed in 2021 for a similar purpose.